Re: SOTD Wednesday 10 October 2012

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Have I told you about the scent of jasmine? Have I spoken about the smell of the sea? The earth is scented. And I perfume myself to enhance what I am. That's why I can not wear a perfume that bothers me. Perfuming is an instinctive wisdom. And like all art, it requires some knowledge of yourself..."
Clarice Lispector ( 1920-1977) - Perfumes da Terra / Earth Perfumes

Re: SOTD Wednesday 10 October 2012

Re: SOTD Wednesday 10 October 2012

Have been busy in the last two days: that school DOES get it all from you, especially when one is a perfectionista and can't stand to be anything but first in class competing with younger, smarter, more alert bunch whose memory storages are not bruised with too much information about houses, noses, notes.

All well, something subdued (yes, for school!): Miller et Bertaux Close Your Eyes And... A girl can dream, even when it is below zero C, non?

Re: SOTD Wednesday 10 October 2012

Hello everyone -

I'm in Keiko Mecheri's Attar de Roses for ballet this morning. Y'all have a great day!

Science is not only compatible with spirituality, it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual...Carl Sagan

Re: SOTD Wednesday 10 October 2012

Re: SOTD Wednesday 10 October 2012

I'm just back from a very, very long stay in Paris for Fashion Week and beyond. Typically, I *never* fly in and out of CDG but this time all the travel arrangements were made independent of personal input. (I have an *A'dam Schipol Only* Euro-zone policy) I hadn't been to CDG in at least 10 years. The international departures terminal: Are you ready people?

LE PARADIS DES PARFUMEURS

It truly was a Perfume Fancier's Dream Made Reality, complete with fake neo-modern Louis XVI airport furniture, and an enormous Laduree tea room smack in the middle, like a carousel. I snooped around a bit: There just isn't anything that can't be found in there, in one place or another--No anything you might ever desire that isn't there waiting--(I didn't go into the Guerlain Boutique--I'm fully stocked for the rest of my life w/pre-wasser vintage & have zero interest.) At any rate, I wish I could say dealing with the MESS of CDG was worth it. It would be nice if I could say that....but I'm just incapable. I'll take A'dam Schipol *any day* over that Hell on Earth--even if it does, in it's nucleus, contain a Perfume Paradise.

I'm the most boring scent of the day contributor ever, as I don't "sleep around" with scents, being a firm believer in signature effluvia. We all know what cloud I'll be walking out the door in today......Three layers of:

Bal a Versailles

This seems to be having quite the effect in my new environment, which, btw, I love. It *Must* be a bit weird for all of the team, though--as they're all tech-advanced and younger than I by at least 10 years: nobody there wears fragrance *at all*--they all must consider me a kind of "visite" from another century: Already they have all made comments about my hats and gloves and pens and all of the things that accompany me--I imagine my scent aura reminds them of their Fragile 100 Year Old Great Aunts...not even their mothers, who would have worn "Babe," or "Charlie" or "Ciara" or something along those lines.

addendum: Habanita wearer upstairs: Yeeowza!

Last edited by le mouchoir de monsieur; 10th October 2012 at 02:18 PM.

Re: SOTD Wednesday 10 October 2012

Originally Posted by le mouchoir de monsieur

Don't you image Heathcliff smelling of hay and an hint of Tabac Blond....punctuated with an heady but ultra yummy natural sweat note?

Welcome home!!

We missed you! I definitely can see the hay, and heather, and horse sweat, and dried manure/peat, and fresh air, and a yummy natural musky scent under it all. Tom Hardy's Heathcliff was swoony as hell.

CDG perfume paradise sounds perfectly heavenly to me. I would love that. What about all the food shops and other shops where you could load up on mustard and tins of paté and french soaps and all kinds of things - they didn't do away with those, did they? I think the last of this decant of Jicky must have been pre-Wasser.

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Lilybelle, thanks for the tip! I will have to try to get that one from the library...if our own library doesn't have it, one of the others in the system should. I'm pretty sure the one she has is the one with Timothy Dalton.

Re: SOTD Wednesday 10 October 2012

Originally Posted by le mouchoir de monsieur

Don't you image Heathcliff smelling of hay and an hint of Tabac Blond....punctuated with an heady but ultra yummy natural sweat note?

I'm with lilybelle, Welcome Back! I can definitely "see" Heathcliff with a bit of Tabac Blond, I may have to dig my bit of TB out later on and have a Heathcliff dream. For now I'm wearing Habanita, I need something warm today, it's a chilly wet one out there.

Re: SOTD Wednesday 10 October 2012

Originally Posted by 30 Roses

Lilybelle, thanks for the tip! I will have to try to get that one from the library...if our own library doesn't have it, one of the others in the system should. I'm pretty sure the one she has is the one with Timothy Dalton.

I think it is my favorite version to date, the 2009 BBC production. Enjoy! I watched it on youtube (I think? can't remember!).

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Foustie, you smell divine! I love that fragrance. I smelled it from Mumsy's bottle as well when she sent over a round of vintage greens a couple of years ago.'

I have Dior's Eau Noir from the Collection on one wrist and could not resist slapping some Mitza on the other wrist. Funny how it is. I liked Eau Noir on paper more, but on my skin -- Mitza, where have you been all my life??

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As I am healing from surgery, and starting a brand new venture with my life, much is happening. So, today I decided I needed a scent to ground me, root me in the here and now. I choose: hmmm. What do I choose?

Re: SOTD Wednesday 10 October 2012

Re: SOTD Wednesday 10 October 2012

Originally Posted by Twolf

Have been busy in the last two days: that school DOES get it all from you, especially when one is a perfectionista and can't stand to be anything but first in class competing with younger, smarter, more alert bunch whose memory storages are not bruised with too much information about houses, noses, notes.

All well, something subdued (yes, for school!): Miller et Bertaux Close Your Eyes And... A girl can dream, even when it is below zero C, non?

Oh, Twolf, I am in the very same boat as you are, the very same. I does take so much out of you, especially when trying to get the best grades one can. I am not ----teen either, and it hurts! And the textbooks...I swear, each year they get bigger and heavier, the print tinier, and prices...well, pricier. I can't wait to get my degree and be done with it. When semester is in session my waistline gets wider, my house turns into a pigsty, and my brains into mush. I wish you with all my heart to get through your school successfully!

Re: SOTD Wednesday 10 October 2012

Jon, lovely pic - and you know how I feel about your fragrance
I'm again in Different Company Bois d'Iris for a chilly morning but warm afternoon. Beautiful fall weather for another day of the International Ballon Fiesta here in Albuquerque!

Re: SOTD Wednesday 10 October 2012

Good Evening,

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, KarmaLee.
Almost joined Larimar and Lilybelle in Jicky, then almost joined Jon in Bois des Îles, but then chanced upon some Bel Respiro hiding at the back of my wardrobe.

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Glad to see that you're on the mend, KarmaLee!

SOTE is Tabac Blond, current formulation. I got a new sample vial from Les Senteurs today. The dry down is gorgeous. Now, shall I get a decant of the vintage or just go for the new...!? Ah, heck, I'll get both!

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Science is not only compatible with spirituality, it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual...Carl Sagan

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Well, now I'm just being a glutton. Just for grins, I've added a few small spritzes of Lorenzo Villoresi Donna to the mix and now I feel like I'm practically drowning in roses ...but what a way to go!

Science is not only compatible with spirituality, it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual...Carl Sagan

Re: SOTD Wednesday 10 October 2012

Good afternoon all, today's spray is the new one from Huitieme Art, Poudre de Riz. It has things in common with two other rice fragrances I like a lot, Farmacia S.S. Annunziata's Fiore di Riso, and ELdO's Fils de Dieu. I will have to compare them head-to-head sometime.